Sunday 24 February 2019

During SLOW(36h), Concertgebouw Brugge gives you 36 hours to stop and pause. In a society that is constantly rushing forward, we stroll and stop. Follow your intuition and forget the clock: experience ‘time’ as ‘duration’, get maximum enjoyment from minimal resources, stride through the city resolutely but slowly and bring yourself into a trance through the repetition of mystical Moroccan Sufi music or Simeon ten Holt’s Canto ostinato. SLOW(36h) massages the senses and - who knows – may even lead to spiritual experiences.

Let's imagine the concert like a musical duel between Bononcini and Handel, an opportunity to compare the expressive figures of the two composers who faced (and often imitated) the London of the first quarter of the eighteenth century.

European Day of Early Music - 6th Edition

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